The DAC aims to facilitate advanced bioinformatic, computational, and statistical analysis of complex genomics data for the Dartmouth research community.
If you have questions about this workshop, or would like to discuss data analysis services available from the Data Analytics Core, please visit our website, or email us at: DataAnalyticsCore@groups.dartmouth.edu
Workshop Goals:
- Develop a working understanding what Bioinformatic data analysis involves, how it is done, and what skills it requires
- Gain an appreciation for how next-generation sequencing data is generated (NGS) and how the information generated is stored
- Learn the major file-types used in bioinformatic data analysis and how to manipulate them
- Learn how to install standard bioinformatic software using Conda
- Understand the concepts of reference genomes and genome annotations and where to find them
- Learn how to leverage the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) for exploring genomics data
- Gain a working knowledge of basic programming in R and how it can be used for Bioinformatics
- Learn how to leverage high performance computing systems (HPCs) to perform Bioinformatic data-analysis
Attendees will come away with a working knowledge of how bioinformatics data analysis is performed and how to leverage common bioinformatic softwares used to analyze next-generation sequencing data.
Attendees will gain the ability to utilize a high performance computing cluster, customize an environment with software specific to an analysis they would like to perform, and a basic understanding of common coding languages.
Attendees will be provided access to recordings of all workshop materials, documents containing all code used during the workshop, a slack channel to facilitate continued communication with the DAC on workshop topics, and office hours for personalized troubleshooting
Attendance will be capped at 40 participants, the workshop will not be held with fewer than 25 participants.
An in person option will be available for this workshop given sufficient interest. In person attendees will be limited to the first 15 people who indicate interest.
Workshop Contacts:
- Shannon Soucy (Shannon.Soucy@Dartmouth.edu)
- Owen Wilkins (omw@Dartmouth.edu)